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John H. Magoon, 87, Hawaiian Air Owner

John H. Magoon Jr., a former majority owner and president of Hawaiian Airlines who helped bring Hawaii into the jet age, died on Monday. He was 87.

Mr. Magoon, who was known as Jack, became president of Hawaiian Air in 1964. A majority owner of the company, he was named chairman and chief operating officer in 1981 and served as chairman until 1989.

Under his leadership, Hawaiian introduced the DC-9 in 1966, the first jet aircraft to serve the interisland market.

The company turned around from the brink of bankruptcy in 1982 under Mr. Magoon and Paul Finazzo, its president at the time, said Tony Vericella, a former state tourism official who also worked for Hawaiian Airlines in the 1980's.

In 1984, Hawaiian started providing charter services with three long-range DC-8 jets. The company expanded from the interisland business into long flights to the mainland, starting round-trip service from Los Angeles to Honolulu in 1985.

A year later, Hawaiian was running daily flights to Seattle and San Francisco.

Hawaiian went from revenue of $10.6 million in 1964 to $632 million in 2002. This year, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors.